Welting



July 14, 1925.

M. E. FERNALD WELTING Filed June 9.. 19255 Patented July i4, i925.

NTD STATS MARK E. FER-NALE), @E SOUTH-BRO, MASSACHUSETTS.

W ELTING.

appncauon area .new s, was. serial N. 644,303.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, Mann E. FERNALD, a citizen of the United residing atSouthboro, in the county of Forcester and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain Improvements in lWelting, of which the followingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification, like reference kcharacters on the drawings indicatinglike parts in the several figures.

The-present invention relates to an improved welting for use Vin themanufacture of welt shoes.

`Welting usedin the manufacture of welt shoes is generally sold to theshoe manufacturers in a skein made up of a number of separate piecesjoined together to form a continuous strip. The separate pieces arejoined by oppositely scarfing the ends of the pieces, superimposing thescarfed ends and securing them together by cement under pressure. )Withthis construction, thelap o f the joint appears on both edge faces ofthe strip along a long slanting line which eX- tends from the bottom tothe top of the strip. This joint present-s a difficulty to manufacturersof Blake welt shoes in which the inseam for uniting the welt to the shoeupper and insole passes through a shoulder in the welt formed bylongitudinally slitting one edge face thereof. Some of the tools whichform the Blake inseam operate in the vslit of the welt and consequentlyoperate in a plane closely approaching the plane of the lap o'n thewelt. These tools separate the lap and thus open up the joint intheVwelt and therefore care has been exercised heretofore in sewingv Blakewelt shoes to prevent a joint appearing in the length of the welt striprequired for a shoe. This is wasteful and negatives to some extent thelarge saving in welting due to the fact that welting for Blake weltshoes is not as wide as for Aloodyear welt shoes.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved weltingwhich is well suited for the manufacture of Blake welt shoes and whichwill overcome the disadvantages hereinbefore referred to.

ln accordance with this object the features of the present inventionconsist in a welting having certain novel features hereinafter describedand claimed, the advantages of which will be readily understood by thoseskilled in the art.

rlChe various features of the present invention will be best understoodfrom an inspection of the accompanying drawings illustrating thepreferred embodiment of the invention, in which f Figure l is anelevation of one of the pieces to be joined; j

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the other piece;

Fig. 3 is a plan (third angle projection) of the piece shown in Figurel;

Fig. 4 is a plan of the piece shown in Fig. 2; l

Fig. 5 is a plan of the joint;

Fig. 6 is an end elevation vof the Welting showing the longitudinal slitformed in one edge face; and f Fig. 7 is a plan of the joint indicatingthe course of the inseam along the shoulder formed by the longitudinalslit.

The two separate pieces which are to be joined to form a strip ofwelting are shown only part way across the strip which at the end of thepiece has'a feather edge but which gradually increases in width until,it meets the line of the `scarf l0. As the wall 1l increases in width itdecreases in heighth until it merges with the uncut portion of the strip8 at the line of scarf lO. l

The other piece 9 is provided with a scarf l2 opposite in direction tothe scarf on the piece 8. The width of the scarfed portion of the piece9 is gradually reduced from the line of scarf 13 to the end of the piecein order that when the pieces 8 and 9 are superimposed the edge face 14on the piece 9 will extend along the wall l1 (Fig. 5).

After the pieces are superimposed and secured together by cement oneedge face of the strip of welting is provided with a lonn gitudinal slitl5 (Figs. 5, 6 and 7). By means of this slit a shoulder 16 is formed atthe base thereof and it is this shoulder that holds the inseam stitches17 (Fig. 7) of a Blake welt shoe.

Vf ith this joint the diagonal lap, which appears on the slit face,terminates at the wall ll so that there is no diagonal lap on shoeshaving ashoulder formed by longitudinally slitting one edge-face of thestrip and having a joint therein comprising two separate piecesoppositely scarfed, superimposed, and secured together, one of Vwhich isprovidedwith la wall extending between the shoulder andthe unslitedgefaee of lthe strip from one end ofthe joint'to the other end.

2. As an article of manufacture a strip of welting for usein themanufacture of shoes having a joint ltherein comprising tivo separatepieces oppositely scarfed, superimposed, and secured together, the scarfon one piece extendingl across the width of the strip only Aat the lineof the scarf and the scarf on the other `piece extending across :thewidth of the strip only at the end of the scarf. f i

KAS an article off manufacture a strip ofr we-lting ,for use -in :themanufacture of shoes having a joint't-herein comprising two separatepieces oppositely scarf'ed, superimposed, and secured together, one edgeface of the strip at the. joint having a diagonal lap andthe other edgeface a vertical lap.

As an article of manufacture a strip of weltinp for use in themanufacture of shoes having a joint therein comprising two separatepieces yopposi'tel-y scanf d, superimposed, and secured together, thediagonal lap showing on only one edge face of the strip.

5. As an artieleof,manufacture a strip of welting for use in themanufacture of shoes havingy a joint therein comprising two separatepieces oppositely .scarfed, superiinposed, and secured together, one ofwhich is provided withl a vertical wal-l arranged to engage an edge faceon the other piece, said wall extending only part way across 'the strip.Y

6. As van article of manufacture a rstrip of welting for use in themanufacture of slices havinga joint therein comprising` two separatepieces oppositely scai'fed, superimposed, and secured together, one ofwhich is provided with a vertical wall extending only part way acrossthe stri-p, having suhstantial width at the line of one scarfv and afeather edge at-the end of the said scarf, arranged to engage anedge'rface onthe other piece throughouty the length ofthe wall. f f

7. As an article of manufacture a strip of welting `for vuse in themanufact-ure of slices having a joint therein comprising two separatepiece-s oppositely scarifed, -superimposed, and secured together, one of.which is provided with a vertical wall 'having-suo stantial width atthe line thereon `and a feather edge at the end ofthe scarfV and havingits greatest heighth at its narrowesty portion, and the other one A.ofwhich is grada-- ally reduced in width fromthe line thereon to the endofthe sea-rf to forni an edge face engaged wi-t'hthe waill throughoutits'length.

S. As anarticle of manufacture a strip of w-.elting for use in themanufacturel of shoes having a -jointtherein comprising two separatepieces oppositely scarfed, superi-niposed', and secured together, oneof' which is scaifed to leavev a portion extend-ing only part way acrossthe strip uncut between the line of the scarf and theend ofthe piece.

9. As an article of manufacture a strip of welting for use in themanufacture of shoes having a joint therein coniprising two separatepieces, superimposed and secured together, one of, which is out to leavea diagonalvwall extending only part way across the stripalongone edge.face of the piece.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to thisspecification.

MAR-K E. FERNA-LD.

